Physical Activity and Quality of Life of Healthy Children and Patients with Hematological Cancers

Aleksandra Kowaluk, Marek Woźniewski and Iwona Malicka
Additional contact information
Aleksandra Kowaluk: Department of Rehabilitation in Internal Medicine, Faculty of Physiotherapy, University School of Physical Education, 51-612 Wroclaw, Poland
Marek Woźniewski: Department of Rehabilitation in Internal Medicine, Faculty of Physiotherapy, University School of Physical Education, 51-612 Wroclaw, Poland
Iwona Malicka: Department of Rehabilitation in Internal Medicine, Faculty of Physiotherapy, University School of Physical Education, 51-612 Wroclaw, Poland

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 15, 1-13

Abstract: The aim was to assess the level of physical activity and the quality of life of children undergoing cancer treatment, during and after the completion of the treatment. Eighty-eight children aged 11–15 were enrolled. Three groups of children were assessed, i.e., children undergoing cancer treatment ( n = 30), children after cancer treatment ( n = 28), and healthy children ( n = 30). The level of physical activity in children was assessed using the questions from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) questionnaire. The assessment of children’s quality of life was conducted using the KIDSCREEN-10 Index. The chi-square test was used to assess the statistical significance of the differences in the results between the study groups in the case of both HBSC and KIDSCREEN-10 questionnaires. Children undergoing cancer treatment did not perform any physical activity of at least 60 min (in total) per day, during the week. Therefore, they did not meet the recommendations related to the appropriate level of daily physical activity (Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity; MVPA). Children after cancer treatment and healthy children significantly more frequently undertook physical activity. The quality of life of children with cancer is significantly lower and different from the quality of life of healthy children.

Keywords: physical activity level; quality of life; child health; cancer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/15/2776/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/15/2776/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:15:p:2776-:d:254469

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().